You play to the crowds-ape paralysis-distort your countenance until they almost cease to recognize you, wondering if you have not in fact escaped the wards, if you are actually an inmate imitating the great professor. Your hand curving inward, clenched, right leg dragging behind your left so it resembles a vestigial appendage, a half-amputated limb. You stand at the front of the amphitheatre, chalk in hand, the right side of your face drooping like a stroke victim’s. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband, author Christopher Narozny, and their corgi. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Syracuse University. Her fiction has appeared in Quarter After Eight, Fourteen Hills, 3rd Bed, Open City, Sleeping Fish, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Shope is the author of Hangings: Three Novellas, published by Starcherone Books. In The Warden, a young nurse starts a new job at the Brookline asylum but soon becomes suspicious of its unorthodox procedures.Don't miss Madeleine Roux's all-new gothic horror novel, House of Furies.The following is excerpted from Nina Shope's Asylum.
In The Bone Artists, Oliver tries to make a little extra money for college by working for a seedy organization that traffics in human bones. In The Scarlets, Cal is drawn into New Hampshire College's twisted secret society-one with a deadly initiation.
This collection also features bonus sneak peeks at Asylum, Sanctum, and Catacomb, the novels that first introduced the Brookline asylum's legacy of terror. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum.
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